Welcome back to Carrie’s Corner! Happy New Year!
Second Annual Winchester Thurston’s Family Recipe Contest!
Calling all food enthusiasts and aspiring chefs! Submit your favorite family recipe for a chance to showcase it to your fellow students during your schools lunch period. Winning recipes will be prepared by the kitchen staff and sampled during lunch on Thursday, February 5th. We will choose one winner from each school. Prize: Chef for the Day(in name only), a certificate and a special prize! Entries are due on January 24th and can be submitted in two ways: email your entry with the students name and grade to dining@winchesterthurston.org OR drop a written or printed recipe off during lunch in the cafeteria at the cashiers station to Ms. Joanne or Carrie. Handwritten recipes must be legible and all recipes must include ingredient measurements and should have the students name and grade on the recipe. Please no recipes with peanuts or tree nuts. We are looking forward to seeing all of the wonderful recipes that come our way!
Here are the upcoming features in the cafeteria for the next two weeks:
January 13th is Ramen Noodle day with a choice of Chicken or Tofu and January 15th is Bangers and Mash with the sausage or veggie brats wrapped in puff pastry. January 20th is our monthly Hot Chocolate Bar, January 21st is Pho and January 22 is Walking Taco’s with Beef or Vegan Chorizo.
Starting in January, every Thursday will have a fish as the always available item on the hot line instead of chicken.
We have added international flavor to our menu in January and love to add other cultures as much as we can. This month we have flavors from Korea, China and England!
FOR YOUR INFORMATION – A PEAK INTO PART OF OUR OPERATION:
WHAT IS AVAILABLE AT THE SCHOOL STORE?
Our school store has three dry snack carts. A small cart with a variety of cereal and oatmeal cups. A second cart with allergen friendly, non GMO items like Skinny Pop popcorn, Boom Chica Boom popcorn, Rip Van Waffle Cookies, That’s it Bars, Natures Bakery Bars, Veggie Straws, Pirate’s Booty to name a few, and a third cart with items Lays potato chips in several varieties, Ms Vicki’s Chips in a variety of flavors, microwave popcorn, Smart Food popcorn, Doritos, Cheetos, mini Oreo’s to name a few.
We have a large refrigerator that has two to three kinds of string cheese, yogurt, hummus, bagel chips and cream cheese, fresh fruit packaged by us, rotating smoothies or smoothie bowls from our kitchen, Guacamole and chips, Snack Packs from our kitchen that are quick snacks and include a protein like cheese or turkey. We have a variety of sports drinks (Body Armor, Vitamin Water and Proteins drinks only available to Upper School) Izze and San Pellegrino bubbly water in several flavors, Fairlife milk in three flavors, Turners Ice tea, lemonade and green tea, and We have recently added the probiotic drink Poppi. Also available is Chobani drinkable yogurt.
One of our goals for the new year is to add a shelf dedicated to the afterschool athlete with wraps and other protein rich snacks.
Additionally there is an ice cream cooler (only open after school) with a variety of Hershey’s Ice cream.
We sell hand fruit such as tangerines, bananas, apples and oranges.
We provide a special snack that is available to the 6-12 grade students in the morning from 9:30-10:30. We serve a variety of sweet and salty items including bagels and cream cheese, Chocolate Croissants, Bite Size Pretzel bar, Hot Chocolate Bar, Baby Potato Pancakes, Spring rolls and Sweet Chili Sauce, Popcorn bar with toppings, Cereal and Milk bar with fruit, Fruit and toppings bar, Yogurt Parfait bar, plain croissants with butter and jam to name a few. We continually add new items. Every Friday is Big Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, the students favorite day of the week.
A few things to know: The items in the school store are not included in the meal plan. During the school day, the lower school does not have access to the school store, their only access is after school. The middle school has access to the school store during the morning break period form 9:45am to 10:10am only and of course after school. The Upper School has access to the school store from 9:30am-10:25am, from 11:45am-12:25 pm and after school. Our after school hours are from 2:30pm- 3:20pm.
As always, it our pleasure to serve your students! Please feel free to email us with any questions or comments at dining@winchesterthurston.org. Carrie Suarez, FSD and Shirley, Yung, Justice, Grace, Sara, Thu Tam, and Joanne.
